How to add menu tabs

[Mr Benn]

Hi guys, fairly newbie here (1 month old ! )

I am using the following template http://joomla.siteground.com/index.p...=siteground99#

My website is www.just4ubirmingham.com

I would like to have 2 , linked , changes to the template. I hope somebody can help.

I would like to have more 'menu tabs' , that is the tabs across the top of the page from left to right , and have no menu down the left hand side of the page.

It currently has 5 tabs, but I cant work out how to add more ? It does seem to be linked to the 'main menu' , as every time I change the items on there, it is reflected in the tab descriptions as well i.e the first 5 items on the Main menu are displayed on the tabs. However, no matter how many items are on the main menu, I only see 5 tabs.

I thought the tabs may be controlled by the 'top menu' , but the options in there don’t correspond at all to what's displayed on the screen.

I have found that if I unpublish all the items on the Main Menu , then the menu box on the left does go, but that in turn is deleting the tab displays across the page as well !

Mambo version 6.2

Any help much appreciated.

[Niko]

Hello Mr Benn,

If you do not want to have the main menu displayed at the left column of your Mambo, you can unpublish the menu from the "Modules -> Site Modules" section in the back-end.

As for having more than 5 items displayed on the horizontal top menu, you have to alter the following file:

<your Mambo directory>/templates/siteground99/menu.php

On line 9 in this file you should see the following query:

$qry = "SELECT id, name, link FROM #__menu WHERE menutype='mainmenu' and parent='0' AND access<='$gid' AND sublevel='0' AND published='1' ORDER BY ordering LIMIT 5";

Change the "LIMIT 5" at the end of that line to "LIMIT 10" for example (in order to display 10 items), which would make the line as follows:

$qry = "SELECT id, name, link FROM #__menu WHERE menutype='mainmenu' and parent='0' AND access<='$gid' AND sublevel='0' AND published='1' ORDER BY ordering LIMIT 10";

[Mr Benn]

Hi Niko.

I have managed to get more menu tabs working. Thanks

I will try the unplish on the main menu later

Thanks for your help

[Val]

I'm glad to hear the solution worked

[Mr Benn]

I have tried unpublishing the main menu as you suggested via the module manager - it still has the effect of giving an error on the front page :

The page you are trying to access does not exist.
Please select a page from the main menu.
This is from page404.php

And it doesnt display the 'item' I have attributed to the 'front page'.
Its as if it has some link embedded in it ?

And just a reminder, if I then click on the 'home' menu option, the page displays okay.

[Mr Benn]

Well , not sure how ,, but a combination of unpublishing items , seems to have resolved the issue.

Thanks.

[Niko]

Hello Mr Benn,

I am glad that you have managed to resolve the problem and your website is working as expected.